In this work we will investigate hybridization, borrowing and grammatical reorganization phenomena in the communities of Ginestra (Lucania), and Vena di Maida (Calabria). Arbëresh varieties present the kind of variation from one another that we expect in natural languages in the absence of external constraints. Moreover, their long time contact with neighbouring Romance varieties is reflected in the extended code-mixing phenomena which characterize their lexicon and their morpho-syntactic organization (Savoia 1984, 2008). Code-mixing and other processes of variation raise questions concerning the nature of the variation and its meaning for the theory of language, in other words about the internal factors that drive it. We are obviously aware that the socio-cultural context and communicative relevance requirements may motivate linguistic variation, directing the attention of the speakers and driving their communicative intentions. Nevertheless, the way that language mixing, borrowing and change work depends on the cognitive constraints that define the Faculty of Language in the sense of Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (2002). As we will show, the mechanisms of variation stem in the last analysis from the fundamental structures of human language rather than from the simple external pressure of cultural and communicative necessities, as functionalist conception would maintain.

Notes on the contact between Italo-Albanian and Romance (Calabrian, Lucanian) varieties: borrowings, code-mixing and convergence / Manzini, MARIA RITA; Savoia, LEONARDO MARIA. - In: HYLLI I DRITËS. - ISSN 1816-5885. - STAMPA. - 35:(2015), pp. 92-116.

Notes on the contact between Italo-Albanian and Romance (Calabrian, Lucanian) varieties: borrowings, code-mixing and convergence.

MANZINI, MARIA RITA;SAVOIA, LEONARDO MARIA
2015

Abstract

In this work we will investigate hybridization, borrowing and grammatical reorganization phenomena in the communities of Ginestra (Lucania), and Vena di Maida (Calabria). Arbëresh varieties present the kind of variation from one another that we expect in natural languages in the absence of external constraints. Moreover, their long time contact with neighbouring Romance varieties is reflected in the extended code-mixing phenomena which characterize their lexicon and their morpho-syntactic organization (Savoia 1984, 2008). Code-mixing and other processes of variation raise questions concerning the nature of the variation and its meaning for the theory of language, in other words about the internal factors that drive it. We are obviously aware that the socio-cultural context and communicative relevance requirements may motivate linguistic variation, directing the attention of the speakers and driving their communicative intentions. Nevertheless, the way that language mixing, borrowing and change work depends on the cognitive constraints that define the Faculty of Language in the sense of Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (2002). As we will show, the mechanisms of variation stem in the last analysis from the fundamental structures of human language rather than from the simple external pressure of cultural and communicative necessities, as functionalist conception would maintain.
2015
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92
116
Manzini, MARIA RITA; Savoia, LEONARDO MARIA
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